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Wednesday, May 1, 2013
How you know when your company is being disrupted - Malcolm Frank, GigaOM
Reinvention and resilience are key to the success of any business. Look no further than the implosions of Borders Books, BlockBuster, Kodak, or any of dozens of other once seemingly impregnable or too-big-to-fail companies that have tanked in the past decade, to remind us that companies that fail to notice and adjust to change – and to see opportunities to innovate – are effectively digging their own graves. So, amid today’s accelerating technological change and the resulting hyper-connectedness, how do we recognize when our own company is vulnerable – when we’re facing our own Kodak moment? I’ve pulled together the seven major disruptive forces that have overturned and redefined the way business is done today.
http://gigaom.com/2013/04/20/the-google-skype-linkedin-amazon-facebook-effect/